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giugno 17, 2022 - Atelier Vierkant

Clay Works and Inspirations

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As a universal prime material,
Clay has the power to connect people from across the globe. Used by artists, potters, ceramists, there has been an endless rethinking of the use and applications of Clay throughout history; from antique Chinese porcelain to today’s contemporary vessels, Clay has been continuously put into question, and has been used as the preferred medium to express knowledge.
This ‘kneaded’ knowledge survives through fired objects and shapes.

Clay, my earth to connect with

In Europe’s heartland Germany, big rocks
of clay deposits are digged out of the ground. Trucks come and go, cranes carve into the soil and extract blocks of earth, aged in the time and transformed to clay, coloured through natural oxides deriving from processes in nature. As a natural material, clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more minerals with possible traces of metal oxides and organic matter.

Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure. Depending on the nature of the soil in which it is found, clay can appear in various colours, from white to dull grey, from brown to deep orange-red. This is because the physical features of the clay mineral present in any particular soil depend on many variables such as parent material, climate, the geographic position of the quarry, the sur- rounding vegetation and the length of time over which these factors have operated.

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Photographer: Bart Van Leuven

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